Quotes About Perseverance

I'm stubborn; once I start something, I want to see how far I can go.

I'm a really competitive guy. I'm a really stubborn guy. That's what makes me want to take Milwaukee to the top, make Milwaukee a big market team. That's a goal I've set for myself. Hopefully, one day I can achieve it.

I've always been a stubborn kid.

That's why I kept wrestling - I'm too dumb to realize I can't win, so I keep wrestling until I ultimately succeed. I'm pretty dang stubborn.

I'm very stubborn and I don't like to lose.

I've always been a stubborn guy and you've got to beat me up before I'll start doing something.

In life, even in our own personal life, we find our self at times fighting against the hand of God. And I believe that. In other words, we can be a rebellious and stubborn people, individually, nationally, or corporately.

I am not particularly disciplined, but I am stubborn like few.

I've always had confidence when it comes to athletics. It's sometimes stubborn to a fault.

There are young guys coming up, trying to make their name off me, and I'm a stubborn dude. I don't want to let that happen. That's very motivating.

My stubbornness helped me for the first half of my career; I had that real determination to do it my way - I know the best way. That helped me from a 14-year-old to 25 in getting me to where I got to.

Stubbornness and ignorance and determination are a very fine line from each other. I'm a very stubborn person, but not so stubborn that I can't learn new things and meet new people, but I have a one-track mind.

I make myself have energy. It's stubbornness in the face of cancer.

The stubbornness I had as a child has been transmitted into perseverance. I can let go but I don't give up. I don't beat myself up about negative things.

There's a fine line between stubbornness and the positive side of that, which is dogged determination.

A lot of my branding has come from stubbornness - I knew what I liked. I knew what I wanted to do.

The writer's secret is not inspiration - for it is never clear where it comes from - it is his stubbornness, his patience.

My stubbornness of wanting this fighting career has saved me.

My favorite fruit is grapes. Because with grapes, you always get another chance. 'Cause, you know, if you have a crappy apple or a peach, you're stuck with that crappy piece of fruit. But if you have a crappy grape, no problem - just move on to the next. 'Grapes: The Fruit of Hope.'

Diamonds are nothing more than chunks of coal that stuck to their jobs.

If you're going through something, just know that you're gonna come out on the other side. You're going through it - you're not stuck there forever.

My father left his piano at the house when he left, and I wasn't allowed to play it when he was there because I wasn't as good as him. So when he left, I was determined to get as good as him, and I taught myself how to play music, and I just stuck with it, and I did it all the time.

When I was signed to Quincy Jones before I went independent, he told me to rap what you know, and people will forever feel you. And I stuck to that, no matter how many people called me a devil worshiper, no matter how many people call me a cult leader. I stuck with rapping about what I know.

I was born in Harlem, raised in the South Bronx, went to public school, got out of public college, went into the Army, and then I just stuck with it.